I'll get the apologies done first. Sorry. We have been fighting hard for agreements over the past couple of weeks, but things have not gone as planned. After agreeing our new plans for Conan a few months ago, the licence holders contacted us seven days before the core development was due to start to tell us that they had decided we should not proceed. As you can imagine, the timing of this was not too good.
This is what we were planning to do. . .
First, Conan would have been released as a setting for RuneQuest, properly tweaked for maximum bloody combat against vicious enemies and dark sorcery. The new range was to have been bound in real leather with a reptilian finish - not as a limited edition, but as standard across the entire Conan range. The interior would have been in full colour. These books would have looked _gorgeous_. New campaigns were planned, with Gareth Hanrahan to be unleashed on the Slaves of Turan, a new epic.
This would have pleased a great many RQ players, but we knew there would be many who would want to stick to the 2nd, or even 1st, edition. So, we had commissioned Vincent Darlage to write a 13 volume atlas to Conan's world - systemless or near systemless, so _all_ Conan players could use them. At around 200 pages each, the detail Vincent was going into was just incredible, and we had geared up some new cartographers to give you the best maps yet seen in Conan - not just overviews of the different nations, but going right down to map out the individual cities, forts and ruins. If you were ever a fan of our 'nation' books for Conan, this series would have made you dippy.
Finally, we had been working alongside Pinnacle and one of our Flaming Cobra studios to produce a full colour Savage Worlds Conan book, giving you three different choices on how you want to play Conan.
All of that is now gone, swept clear with a single decision.
This all, as you can imagine, puts us in a bit of a quandry. We are currently 'regrouping' with regards to Conan and debating how to move forward on this line.
Once again, you have our deepest apologies for this happening and if there had been anyway to avoid it, we would have done so. There will not, unfortunately, be any 'big' announcement for Conan in the State of the Mongoose this year and so I wanted to let you, our best fans, know what was happening as soon as possible.
This is what we were planning to do. . .
First, Conan would have been released as a setting for RuneQuest, properly tweaked for maximum bloody combat against vicious enemies and dark sorcery. The new range was to have been bound in real leather with a reptilian finish - not as a limited edition, but as standard across the entire Conan range. The interior would have been in full colour. These books would have looked _gorgeous_. New campaigns were planned, with Gareth Hanrahan to be unleashed on the Slaves of Turan, a new epic.
This would have pleased a great many RQ players, but we knew there would be many who would want to stick to the 2nd, or even 1st, edition. So, we had commissioned Vincent Darlage to write a 13 volume atlas to Conan's world - systemless or near systemless, so _all_ Conan players could use them. At around 200 pages each, the detail Vincent was going into was just incredible, and we had geared up some new cartographers to give you the best maps yet seen in Conan - not just overviews of the different nations, but going right down to map out the individual cities, forts and ruins. If you were ever a fan of our 'nation' books for Conan, this series would have made you dippy.
Finally, we had been working alongside Pinnacle and one of our Flaming Cobra studios to produce a full colour Savage Worlds Conan book, giving you three different choices on how you want to play Conan.
All of that is now gone, swept clear with a single decision.
This all, as you can imagine, puts us in a bit of a quandry. We are currently 'regrouping' with regards to Conan and debating how to move forward on this line.
Once again, you have our deepest apologies for this happening and if there had been anyway to avoid it, we would have done so. There will not, unfortunately, be any 'big' announcement for Conan in the State of the Mongoose this year and so I wanted to let you, our best fans, know what was happening as soon as possible.
